Category: YA

Book Review | The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy

Posted January 24, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

My first book review of 2023 and it’s a 5 star read!!! What a way to kick off my reading for this year. The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy is everything I needed and more from a gloriously twisty, scary, thrilling horror YA. One of my goals this year is to read as many 2023/ARCs as I can so I started with Cynthia Murphy’s latest release The Midnight Game and it was the best choice I made. I read Last One to Die a few years ago which I loved. Cynthia has a way of writing that you can’t put […]

My Top Ten Books of 2022 – The Best Reading Year so far…

Posted December 30, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Best Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my wonderful readers. With 2023 fast approaching in the next couple of days I think it’s about time I reflected on my year of reading and select my top 10 books. I feel this year not only have I read more than last year but I also completed by Goodreads Reading challenge for the first time in ages. I have also read more diversly this year and read books that have been on my TBR in forever. I feel this year has been the best reading year in a very long time. So choosing my top 10 was really […]

Blog Tour | Over My Dead Body – Interview with Sweeney Boo

Posted November 25, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Blog Tour, Bookish Post, Graphic Novel, Interview, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovely readers and do I have a treat for you today. I gidderly excited about this post and especially as I’m kicking off the tour for Over My Dead Body. Which is OUT TODAY! SO HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! It’s the perfect autumnal graphic novel by Sweeney Boo. So today I’m interviewing Sweeney Boo, and after reading Over My Dead Body (review to follow next week) I did some reserach as I’ve never interviewed a comic book artist before. When I was looking at her previous work, I was completely starstruck and flabberghasted because she drew the characters […]

Mini Reviews – A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik, Nothing More to Tell by Karen McManus and Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

Posted November 14, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 4 Stars, 4.5 Stars, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Mini-Review, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hellooooooooo my lovely bookworms. The last time I posted was middle of the summer and now it’s Autumn. Bring on the cosy nights of reading with blankets, slipper boots and autumn drinks. I’m sorry it’s been so long , neglecting my blog, something I absolutely love, but since I went back to work, it’s just been extremely busy. But I’m back slowly. I’ve trying to be more organised and forward planning some content as well. Whilst I may have been absent, I haven’t stopped reading even if it has been a chapter or 2 a day, I still reading so […]

Blog Tour – Book Review | With Fire in Their Blood by Kat Delacorte

Posted August 30, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, Fantasy, Romance, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my fellow bookworms, I am once again back with another book review. Today I’m excited to be sharing my review for a new witchy fantasy set in Italy, With Fire in their Blood as part of TheWriteReads blog tour. I am going to get straight into the review, but here is a little more about the book. Italy, what really comes to mind, beautiful Mediterranean coastline and culture. But there is a hidden, isolated city – Castello, that holds more than just secrets but also dark power, old ways, and past sins. Castello, is where Lilly find herself after […]

Book Review | The Honeys by Ryan La Sala – Don’t miss this Summer’s Hottest YA Horror!

Posted August 23, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Horror, LGBTQ+, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. I said I had many reviews to write and here I am writing yet another which is 5 star read. This a book that took me by surprise and I love when that happens. So let’s straight into my thoughts shall we but first here is a little bit more about the book. The Summer’s hottest YA Horror! The Honeys follows Mars, when his twin sister, Caroline, is horrifically dies in front of him, he is haunted by it. Ever since attending Aspen Summer Academy, Caroline changed, she grew cold and distant from him and his […]

Book Review | Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard

Posted August 22, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Summer Reading, UKYA, University, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. Happy Monday and hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I’m bringing you a book review *shock horror*. I know – I mean it’s been a while once again. But I’ve read a lot of books this summer so far which I’m loving and I need to catch up on review desperately. Today’s review is my most recent finished book, Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard. With under half way to go on the book, I picked it up before bed and I finished it at 2 am. So here is a little more about the […]

JULY WRAP-UP – THE BEST READING MONTH THIS YEAR!

Posted August 8, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, Bookish Post, Monthly Wrap-Up Post, YA / 0 Comments

Happy August my friends! I can’t believe how quickly this year is going and I’m on my summer holidays so I know that it will fly by – it always does then we’ll be in September and talking about Christmas very soon. The last time I did a wrap up post it was April and I said I had the best reading month. Well I’ve beaten that and I’m so happy. I think with the horrible UK heatwave a few weeks ago, all I did was read as I was too hot to sleep. I would also say that this […]

Series Review | Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Posted June 23, 2022 by Emma in 2022 Books, 5 Stars, Book Review, Bookish Post, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+, Series Review, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my lovely readers. Happy Thursday evening – I hope everyone is staying cool. I am so very glad it’s the weekend tomorrow! Today I thought I would bring you a series review for a change. The last month or so I have devoured the Heartstopper series both reading them then watching them and then reading them so more. I have absolutely loved it so so much and I can’t believe it’s taken me so long. Most of you would have read Heartstopper I’m sure, I felt like I was the last one in the world that hadn’t read them. […]